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In Reply to: RE: Turandot: A benchmark recording now better than ever posted by kitch29 on March 10, 2017 at 14:25:53
. . . signed (and dated!) by both Sutherland and Pavarotti. I made a special trip to Discount Records in San Francisco (not Tower Records) to get the autographs, which they did using a felt-tip pen. The amazing thing to me was that this was the era before smoking bans were in place, so that people were smoking inside and the whole store was chock-full of cigarette smoke, with Sutherland and Pavarotti right there! Scandalous!
Of course, I jettisoned this album, along with the rest of my LP's, soon after I got a critical mass of CD's in the mid-80's. I remember one of the LP sides had a big 10-12 groove scratch on it, although it was still playable of course. Strangely, I never did replace this album with a CD or higher-rez equivalent. (It's now available as a CD-blu-ray-audio combo.) And you might think it even stranger that the only CD I ever purchased of this opera was the horribly recorded Karajan version with Riciarelli. (I always thought Riciarelli was underestimated however.) I also have the blu-ray videos of the Met Zefirelli production with Nelsons conducting and the Valencia Chen Kaige production with Mehta conducting - both featuring Maria Guleghina in the title role. My current opinion is that the Valencia blu-ray is recorded even better than the Decca/London is, not least because of the multi-channel aspect to the sound.
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Watch Scorsese's "The Last Waltz". He borrowed sets from a San Francisco Opera production of it for backdrops.
Hi Chris - what is even more shocking to me is to watch those videos they made of the making of the Solti Ring cycle, and seeing Fischer-Dieskau and the first horn player of the Vienna Phil sitting there smoking together! Hilarious!
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